Lila Abu-Lughod | Academic Influence

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Anthropology

#213

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#316

Historical Rank

#120

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Lila Abu-Lughod's Degrees

Bachelors Sociology and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Lila Abu-Lughod is a Palestinian-American anthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City. She specializes in ethnographic research in the Arab world, and her seven books cover topics including sentiment and poetry, nationalism and media, gender politics and the politics of memory.

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Lila Abu-Lughod's Published Works

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the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women (1990) (1607)
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others (2002) (1544)
Writing against Culture (2008) (1177)
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2013) (761)
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (2008) (513)
Language and the Politics of Emotion (1990) (482)
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (1998) (441)
Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2002) (339)
Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (2004) (313)
Can There Be A Feminist Ethnography (1990) (264)
Zones of Theory in the Anthropology of the Arab World (1989) (212)
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (2007) (187)
"Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies (2001) (140)
The Interpretation of Culture(s) after Television (1997) (124)
Finding a Place for Islam: Egyptian Television Serials and the National Interest (1993) (109)
Writing Women's Worlds (1993) (99)
Seductions of the “Honor Crime” (2011) (90)
DIALECTS OF WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITRY OF THE ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 20051 (2009) (87)
honor and the sentiments of loss in a Bedouin society (1985) (85)
Introduction. Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions (1998) (81)
Chapter 7. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics (1998) (80)
A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women (1985) (71)
The Active Social Life of "Muslim Women's Rights": A Plea for Ethnography, Not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine (2010) (60)
Shifting Politics In Bedouin Love Poetry (1990) (51)
Movie stars and islamic moralism in Egypt (1995) (49)
Living the “revolution” in an Egyptian village: Moral action in a national space (2012) (46)
Islam and the Gendered Discourses of Death (1993) (43)
Bedouins, Cassettes and Technologies of Public Culture (1989) (42)
Locating Ethnography (2000) (41)
Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media (2006) (23)
Editorial Comment: On Screening Politics in a World of Nations (1993) (21)
Understanding Honour Killing and Honour- Related Violence in the Immigration Context: Implications for the Legal Profession and Beyond (2012) (19)
Beyond the "Woman Question" in the Egyptian Revolution (2011) (18)
Imagining Palestine’s Alter-Natives: Settler Colonialism and Museum Politics (2020) (17)
Islam and Public Culture: The Politics of Egyptian Television Serials (1993) (13)
The cross‐publics of ethnography: The case of “the Muslimwoman” (2016) (13)
The Debate about Gender, Religion, and Rights: Thoughts of a Middle East Anthropologist (2006) (11)
The Veil: Modesty, Privacy, Resistance (2000) (10)
OVERVIEW: ENGAGING THE ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005 ON WOMEN (2009) (10)
The Humanities in Human Rights: Critique, Language, Politics (2006) (9)
Why a successful concept should not be discarded. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (9)
Palestine: Doing Things with Archives (2018) (6)
Of Narrative in Law and Anthropology@@@Narrative, Violence, and the Law; The Essays of Robert Cover@@@Narrative, Authority, and Law@@@Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (1996) (6)
Modest women, subversive poems : the politics of love in an Egyptian Bedouin society (1986) (5)
Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study by Nadera Shalhoub‐Kevorkian (2011) (3)
Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (2006) (3)
Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives (2001) (3)
Wombs and Allen Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. JANICE BODDY (1993) (3)
Change and Egyptian Bedouins (1984) (3)
Anthropology in the Territory of Rights, Islamic, Human, and Otherwise… (2011) (3)
The Adjacent Art of Documentary: A Palestinian Film Festival (2004) (3)
Introduction: The Politics of Feminist Politics (2016) (2)
Uncertain livelihoods: challenges facing herding in a Lebanese village (2006) (2)
Nine Days into the War (1991) (2)
Art, Activism, and the Presence of Memory in Palestine: Interview with Palestinian Artist Rana Bishara (2021) (2)
1. Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving (2013) (2)
DIALECTS OF WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITRY OF THE ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005 (2009) (2)
Commentary on ‘Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region’ by Lila Abu-Lughod (2017) (2)
Before Post-Colonialism (1995) (2)
Chapter 5. The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights” (2011) (2)
Melodramas of Nationhood (2000) (1)
The colonial Harem. MALEK ALLOULA (1988) (1)
Honor, modesty and poetry in a Bedouin society : ideology and experience among Awlad ʻAli of Egypt (1984) (1)
About Politics, Palestine, and Friendship: A Letter to Edward from Egypt (2005) (1)
Politics in the Everyday: Women in Palestinian Women's Films (2004) (1)
The Social Life of Muslim Women's Rights (2009) (1)
Transnational Politics and Feminist Inquiries in the Middle East: An Interview with Professor Lila Abu-Lughod (2012) (1)
Introduction: Rights and Lives (2013) (1)
Transcriptions Of Arabic Poems And Songs (2019) (0)
Feminism and Geopolitics: A Collaborative Project on the Cunning of Gender Violence (2023) (0)
Ethnography in/of Nations GAD Distinguished Lecture, 2003 (2009) (0)
Note on Transliterations (1998) (0)
Preface To The Fifteenth Anniversary Edition (2019) (0)
Muslim Women and the Freedom to Choose (2017) (0)
At the Frontiers of Anthropology (1993) (0)
Part One. Anthropology and National Media (2019) (0)
A Sense of Honor. 1984. Produced by Vanya Kewley (1987) (0)
Keeping The Names Straight (2019) (0)
Conclusion: Registers of Humanity (2013) (0)
Buffeted By How Others See You (2016) (0)
Part Two. National Pedagogy (2019) (0)
6. An Anthropologist in the Territory of Rights (2013) (0)
Book Review:Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman Unni Wikan (1983) (0)
2. The New Common Sense (2013) (0)
About the Contributors (2002) (0)
Anthropologies de l’Égypte 1 (1995) (0)
Cassettes and the Shifting Politics of Awlad ‘Ali Love Poetry (2006) (0)
Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies (2020) (0)
Forced Entry: My Father’s Education into Politics (2011) (0)
Managing religion in the name of national community (2015) (0)
3. Authorizing Moral Crusades (2013) (0)

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